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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 2

The minister stopped and greeted the lady politely, and she replied with friendliness, asking him why he had come to such an out-of-the way place.

Who acts: minister, he · What happens: stop, greet, reply, ask, come · To what, where: lady, him, way place

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minister, he), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

detnsubjccconjdetobjadvmodpunctccnsubjparataxiscaseoblpunctadvclobjadvmodnsubjauxadvclcasedet:predetdetcasepunctcasepunctdetcompoundoblpunctrootTheDETministerNOUNstoppedVERBandCCONJgreetedVERBtheDETladyNOUNpolitelyADV,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONrepliedVERBwithADPfriendlinessNOUN,PUNCTaskingVERBhimPRONwhyADVhePRONhadAUXcomeVERBtoADPsuchDETanDEToutADP-PUNCTofADP-PUNCTtheDETwayNOUNplaceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 ministerdet
2ministerministerNOUNNumber=Sing3 stoppednsubj
3stoppedstopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4andandCCONJ_5 greetedcc
5greetedgreetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 stoppedconj
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 ladydet
7ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing5 greetedobj
8politelypolitelyADV_5 greetedadvmod
9,,PUNCT_12 repliedpunct
10andandCCONJ_12 repliedcc
11sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 repliednsubj
12repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 stoppedparataxis
13withwithADP_14 friendlinesscase
14friendlinessfriendlinessNOUNNumber=Sing12 repliedobl
15,,PUNCT_16 askingpunct
16askingaskVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 repliedadvcl
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 askingobj
18whywhyADVPronType=Int21 comeadvmod
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 comensubj
20hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 comeaux
21comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part16 askingadvcl
22totoADP_31 placecase
23suchsuchDETPronType=Ind31 placedet:predet
24anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 placedet
25outoutADP_31 placecase
26--PUNCT_25 outpunct
27ofofADP_31 placecase
28--PUNCT_27 ofpunct
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 placedet
30waywayNOUNNumber=Sing31 placecompound
31placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing21 comeobl
32..PUNCT_3 stoppedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1stoppastthe ministervn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2greet speech: greetpastthe minister not said herethe ladypolitely propertyvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme
3reply speech: assertpastministerwith friendlinessvn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with friendliness=Eventuality
4ask speech: askgerundminister not said herehim = hevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5comepast · perfecthesuch way placevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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